The Itsekiri Liberation Group, ILG, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, to order Elcrest, Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC and Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, to stop what it described as “the fraudulent Benin River OML40 Host Communities Development Trust, HCDT established for Ijaw and Itsekiri.
ILG, in a statement made available to Fresh Angle International, Friday October 3, said “the marriage is dead on arrival and fraudulent in nature.”
The group in the statement signed by its President and Secretary, Gbesimi Okorodudun and Ajofotan J Omagbemi, respectively, asked Elcrest, NPDC and NUPRC, not to rename any Itsekiri community(ies) in Warri North as Ijaw community to make up HCDT for the Ijaws.
The statement reads: “We call on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Delta State Governor and the NUPRC to halt the process and do the right thing, by establishing a different HCDT for both Itsekiri and Ijaw ethnic groups, separately within Warri North, Warri South-West and parts of Edo and Ondo states.
“What is worrisome in the HCDT is that Itsekiri land belonging to Koko, Ureju, Obonteghareda, Ebrohimi etc, where Ijaws reside for the purposes of fishing and are distinctly fishing camps (shanties) numbering over eleven, were listed as Ijaw communities in the Benin River OML40 Host Community Development Trust and this is unacceptable to the Itsekiri ethnic group.
“We therefore demand strongly that the federal government, directs its agency saddled with the responsibility of registration of HCDT to do the needful, by registering separate HCDT for Itsekiri and Ijaw ethnic nationalities in the Benin River axis of Warri North, Warri South-West as well as parts of Edo and Ondo states, to guarantee peace, justice, fairness and proper appropriation as well as utilisation of the funds meant for the different ethnic nationalities.”
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